[Zope-dev] Can ZPatterns Plugins be used separately?

[Kevin Howe]

Splitting into DataSkins and Plugins sounds like a really sensible idea, I
defintely put my vote in for that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Alexander" <steve@cat-box.net>
To: "Kevin Howe" <khowe@performance-net.com>
Cc: "ZOPE-Dev Mailing List" <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Can ZPatterns Plugins be used separately?


> Kevin Howe wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible to use ZPattern Plugins in a
> > non-ZPatterns Product? Allowance for Plugins would be a very useful
feature
> > in many applications.
>
> You can use PlugIns without using the rest of ZPatterns, such as
> DataSkins and Racks. You still have to have the ZPatterns product
> installed, obviously. I can see this becoming even more useful when
> ZClasses work with PlugIns. This may be a while off, though.
>
> I'm still in favour of splitting ZPatterns into separate DataSkins and
> PlugIns packages in the next feature release.
>
> --
> Steve Alexander
> Software Engineer
> Cat-Box limited
> http://www.cat-box.net
>